Maryalicia Post

Maryalicia has been travelling since she was allowed to cross streets by herself (what was her mother thinking!) She lived by the shore in Brooklyn, NY, in those simple days, a long time ago now. With her little sister as a willing companion, she would set out with a small bag: a map, plasters in case of heel blisters, some chocolate and a notepad and pen. She’d walk until she got tired -or her sister did -stopping from time to time to rest and record what she’d seen.

Many years were to pass before Maryalicia would be paid to travel. She was a copywriter first – on Madison Avenue in the ‘madmen’ days – wrote a children’s book (Horse in the House), became a journalist, then a medical editor.

She married her childhood sweetheart and they moved to Ireland. When he died, after 30 happy years and a lot of travelling together, Maryalicia knew her hardest journey would be learning to live without him. Her book about the first year after his death, After You, was published a few years later by Souvenir Press, London. (It is now available in a paperback second edition published by Cyberwit.)

What next? Time to start travelling again, still with her notepad and pen. Her notes turned into articles and the articles developed into a 30 year career as a travel writer which ended with the pandemic .Reports from her favourite places -- from the Artic Circle to Zanzibar - are archived on her website maryaliciapost.com.

Maryalicia has also published a number of books of poetry.